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Mercedes has been given a hearing date for its right of review request over the stewards’ decision to overturn Pierre Gasly’s two Monaco Grand Prix penalties, a U-turn that reinstated the Alpine driver’s podium. A Mercedes representative must attend a virtual stewards’ conference on Saturday at 8am, with the first stage deciding whether the team has produced a “significant and relevant new element” that was not available to the stewards at the time.
The FIA is reviewing its ADUO engine performance findings after a document seen by Sky Sports News ranked Red Bull as having the strongest 2026 internal combustion engine, leaving it with no upgrade opportunities while Mercedes, Ferrari, Audi and Honda would be allowed in-season changes. Sky Sports News said the FIA has yet to officially confirm the results and is discussing them with teams ahead of the Austrian Grand Prix. Red Bull questioned the data, with Laurent Mekies saying: “We do not see one single data sample that indicates that we would have an advantage over our friends at Mercedes.”
George Russell says the teams that introduce substantial upgrade packages earliest will gain an advantage in this season’s pecking order, after Ferrari brought a major update in Spain and Lewis Hamilton won the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix. Russell said: "They did bring a big upgrade here and I think the development slope is so steep at the moment for all of the teams. Whoever is going to be bringing those upgrades earliest is going to be taking a step forward."
Aston Martin boss Mike Krack apologised to fans after the team’s poor Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix weekend ended with both cars retiring. Krack said: "I think we expected a difficult weekend, but then having poor performance and then not finishing or having two DNFs does not make it easy. In the first place, I feel sorry for all the fans in green shirts in the grandstands in the paddock. There were many. We could not give them anything to cheer about."
Toto Wolff says Mercedes is “really digging deep” to stop another power unit-related reliability issue after Kimi Antonelli retired from the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix with what appeared to be a battery problem. Wolff said: "We don't know yet what was the cause of the failure. Most of the others were battery-related, but different failures. We need to understand what it was, but clearly the symptom was quite similar, that the car just switched off. We will be really digging deep to make sure that this doesn't happen again."
Lewis Hamilton says working with stand-in Ferrari race engineer Carlo Santi has “reignited” his love of being a Formula 1 driver, after taking his first win for the team at the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix. Hamilton said: "We didn't know each other, we'd never spoken and I didn't really know much of… I didn't know anything about him. And we met and I think got on straight away. But it's great to be able to connect with an engineer other than what I used to have. I like to think that this has probably reignited the love that he has as being an engineer as he has done for me as a driver."
Lewis Hamilton says he wants his Ferrari to feature more traditional red, joking that he is not happy that his cockpit is white, after taking his first victory for the team at the Circuit de Catalunya. Hamilton said: "My cockpit happens to be white, which I've not been too happy about. I wanted it to be red like Michael's. I'll get it back to red at some stage."
Formula 1 says it has cut its carbon footprint by 35% from its 2018 baseline and remains on track to hit its Net Zero 2030 target, according to its latest Impact Report. It says almost 80,000 tCO2e has been removed from operations since 2018, with further reductions planned through shifting more freight away from air transport and increased use of sustainable aviation and maritime fuels. F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali said: “We remain on track to achieve Net Zero by 2030,” while head of ESG Ellen Jones said the Future Race Operations Programme will deliver “further significant reductions in the years ahead”.
Kimi Antonelli says Mercedes needs to address its reliability concerns after he retired late on from the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix while running second. Antonelli said: "It's a bit of a concern because we've had quite a few issues so far in the year. Our package is really strong, but it's a point that we need to work on, because losing so many points and these kind of races hurt."
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has suggested Lewis Hamilton’s recent upturn in form at Ferrari may be helped by his relationship with Kim Kardashian, alongside car characteristics and team dynamics. Speaking to PlanetF1.com and other media after Hamilton’s Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix win, Wolff said: “I saw him on the podium on the telly. That face shows me that he's very happy. Maybe the girlfriend helps… it helped me to have a partner, that you have a stable family life.”
Liam Lawson says Racing Bulls need their strong qualifying “trend” to continue and to translate into better race performance as the team battles Alpine in the midfield. Lawson said: "It's a long season; we have a lot of races to go. Alpine have had some good races recently and scored some good points. But yeah, if we keep this trend, obviously we had a quick car in qualifying. Hopefully that translates to the rest of the season. I think Barcelona is normally quite a good sign for that, so we just need to sort out the race car."
Lewis Hamilton thanked Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur for sticking with him through what Hamilton described as a “relentless” push for changes, after taking his first win for the team at the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix. Hamilton said: "Well firstly, I wouldn't be in this team without Fred. Fred is the one that made it happen, and of which I'm incredibly grateful to him for. I am very, very vocal – if I see something that I don't think is right, I push very, very hard, that's like at the core of who I am and I'm relentless with it. It's not easy to be on the receiving end of that... [I] had to really ask for some of the changes, and he enabled them to happen."
Lewis Hamilton says he reset after his disappointing first season at Ferrari by shutting out negativity and rebuilding his mindset, which he felt paid off as he won the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix. Hamilton said: "I'm only human. There's moments where I see the stuff and for sure there's moments where I allowed it to get to me and penetrate deeply. But then I went through a sequence of unplugging from that matrix. I spent lots of time with family, lots of time with friends, real people that know me, that have never doubted me. And one thing that I know is to never second-guess yourself, never doubt yourself."
Max Verstappen says Red Bull are still the fourth-fastest team and that is unlikely to change at the upcoming rounds unless the team brings performance upgrades, after he finished fourth at the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix. Verstappen said: "I think, in general, we're still the fourth-fastest team. That's not really going to change at any of the upcoming tracks unless, of course, you bring performance. We're not going to solve it just by changing the set-up."
Max Verstappen says Red Bull are still behind Ferrari, Mercedes and McLaren and remain a “work in progress” after finishing fourth at the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix. Verstappen said: "It's clear that I think we are still behind the Ferrari, Mercedes and McLaren, because we finished behind each one of them. So we're still P4 as a team. Maybe a little bit better, but still not where we want to be. But it's a work in progress."
Oscar Piastri says he has “no answers” yet for why McLaren’s performance fell away at the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix, after struggling with grip and tyre life in the race. Oscar Piastri said: "No, not really. I was trying a lot of different things and running into a lot of different problems, so I think just struggling a lot with grip, tyre life, obviously. So I don't have any answers at the moment."
Racing Bulls left the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix with “mixed feelings” despite Liam Lawson finishing eighth and Arvid Lindblad ninth, as Alpine still had the edge in their fight for fifth in the constructors’ standings. Team principal Alan Permane said: “After a strong weekend, it felt as though we retreated a little bit in the race… The Alpines definitely had the measure of us today,” with Lawson losing out when Pierre Gasly pitted under the VSC, while a penalty for Franco Colapinto ultimately helped Racing Bulls’ points haul.
Lewis Hamilton said he has quickly built a strong connection with his Ferrari race engineer Carlo Santi, comparing it to the partnership he had with long-time Mercedes engineer Peter Bonnington, after winning the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix. Hamilton said: "It was great to have him up there [on the podium]. Him kind of substituting this year, jumping in and diving in deep with me, we didn't know each other, we'd never spoken and I didn't know anything about him. And we met and I think got on straight away. It's great to be able to connect with an engineer other than what I used to have. I had it for such a long time and then you kind of lose that feeling because Bono's now doing it with Kimi [Antonelli]."
Fernando Alonso said the drivers' parade was “the best part” of his Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix weekend, describing it as an emotional moment with Spanish fans as he suggested it could be his last race at the Circuit de Catalunya. Alonso said: "It was the best part of the weekend. As I knew, I mean, the fans were incredible the whole weekend. That was a very nice feeling, very emotional weekend for me. Maybe the last in Barcelona. So, yeah, off the car, I enjoyed every minute. But unfortunately, we didn't give to them what they deserve in terms of results. So, hopefully, in the second part of the year, we can improve the situation."
Mercedes deputy team principal Bradley Lord said a front-wing adjustment error at George Russell’s final pit stop “compromised” his pace late on at the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix. Lord said: "In our final pit stop, we actually incorrectly adjusted the front wing owing to a problem with the adjuster gun, and that meant that he was working with a very, very oversteer-y balance that certainly compromised his pace in the final stages".
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